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  Kieran Ray December 18, 2009 at 12:12am

  My mother in law was hit by a delivery driver today! She was parked at the side of the road and van came round the corner and got her wing and headlight! Van driver (woman) was more worryed about her van!
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  Lawncare-4u.co.uk December 18, 2009 at 7:08am

  x mas deliveries !
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  David Beasley Garden Design December 18, 2009 at 7:29am

  It must be a national phenominum!
  
  Three weeks ago we had two deliveries to the same client.
  
  The first delivering natural stone in 1 tonne pallets turned up in a box van with a tail-lift. Not a problem with that you may think? The problem is that we wanted it placing at the top of a steeply sloping driveway with tightish access. We manually had to drag 4 loads on a pallet truck up the slope and the dopey driver even asked the female client (who had just had a baby!) to give a hand. Prior to this he had just reversed his van in to one of the steel posts of the electronically controlled drive gates whilst being directed! I said to the driver that I could not beleive that he delivers paving all-day without the use of a HIAB and he said that his boss reckons it does not warrant the investment....
  
  The next day we had a delivery of 50 bags of cement on a pallet. The truck turned up with a HIAB as expected and the driver did a marvellous job of reversing through the gates and partially up the drive. He then proceeded to put his aluminium side to his vehicle down and leaned it against the £600 electronic door access box on a gate post, scratching it in the process. The client went berserk.
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  Lawncare-4u.co.uk December 18, 2009 at 7:45am

  The first delivering natural stone in 1 tonne pallets turned up in a box van with a tail-lift
  
  how did he get it to rear of /on tail-lift --------
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  Kieran Ray December 18, 2009 at 1:52pm

  We have had deliveries like this before it always amusing, Bradstone do It if you buy direct! go it on a job in Wales and from the lorry to where we wanted it was quite a nice slope, only way he could stop was to turn the pallet over! I like our local jewsons, they have a nice new HIAB with a remote control, on one job we had to but everything over a 10' tall hedge, he managed easy, he could stand wherever he liked!
  
  Robin Ainsworth said:

  The first delivering natural stone in 1 tonne pallets turned up in a box van with a tail-lift
  
  how did he get it to rear of /on tail-lift --------
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  Graeme @ BGS December 18, 2009 at 1:58pm

  Kieran Ray said:

  I like our local jewsons, they have a nice new HIAB with a remote control, on one job we had to but everything over a 10' tall hedge, he managed easy
  
  

  Can't be the same Jewsons chap we had in Buckinghamshire! Single track road, got the HIAB half way across the hedge and it packed up. He didn't have a clue how to operator it and I think he held up traffic for a good 45 minutes!
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  David Beasley Garden Design December 18, 2009 at 7:05pm

  Err, with the aforementioned pallet truck!
  
  Robin Ainsworth said:

  The first delivering natural stone in 1 tonne pallets turned up in a box van with a tail-lift
  how did he get it to rear of /on tail-lift --------
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  Kieran Ray December 20, 2009 at 10:19pm

  There from the Leighton Buzzard branch or Bletchly. Whats your nearest branch?
  
  Graeme @ BGS said:

  Kieran Ray said:

  I like our local jewsons, they have a nice new HIAB with a remote control, on one job we had to but everything over a 10' tall hedge, he managed easy
  
  

  Can't be the same Jewsons chap we had in Buckinghamshire! Single track road, got the HIAB half way across the hedge and it packed up. He didn't have a clue how to operator it and I think he held up traffic for a good 45 minutes!
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  Geoff Norfolk December 21, 2009 at 7:30am

  on the drivers side, I've had quite a few xmas rhings delivered over the last week from Amazon etc........ some of the poor drivers have been working to 9pm, 7 days a week and in poor weather and road conditions...... I'm sure I'd have had a prang if I was doing that much driving at the moment!
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  Graeme @ BGS December 21, 2009 at 8:55am

  Kieran Ray said:

  There from the Leighton Buzzard branch or Bletchly. Whats your nearest branch?
  
  Graeme @ BGS said:

  Kieran Ray said:

  I like our local jewsons, they have a nice new HIAB with a remote control, on one job we had to but everything over a 10' tall hedge, he managed easy
  
  

  Can't be the same Jewsons chap we had in Buckinghamshire! Single track road, got the HIAB half way across the hedge and it packed up. He didn't have a clue how to operator it and I think he held up traffic for a good 45 minutes!

  
  The branch in question was I believe Marlow or one near by. I think it was a relief driver.